Turkish Tourism Breaks All The Records in The First Seven Months of 2019

Nearly 25 million international visitors visited Turkey in the first seven months of 2019. There is 14.1% increase compared to previous year’s same period. Mainly visitors diverted to a Mediterranean resort city, Antalya, heading more than 7.85 million visitors. Istanbul as the metropolitan city of turkey, draws most of the tourists calculating up to 8.4 million and then ranking Edirne (on the border of Bulgaria and Greece) broke its own record of tourism by more than 2.5 million people visiting.

Table 1: Top 5 Most Visited Cities by International Visitors

City

Rate %

Number

Istanbul

34,19

8.443.527

Antalya

31,79

7.849.195

Edirne

10,17

2.510.793

Mugla

7,01

1.730.465

Artvin

4,90

1.209.467

Russians are on the top of the list with more than 3.75 million visitors, followed by Germans with 2.7 million visitors.

Table 2: Top 5 International Visitors by Nationality

Nationality

Rate %

Number

Russian

15,20

3.752.437

German

10,82

2.670.672

Bulgaria

5,85

1.444.789

English

5,78

1.428.298

Iranian

4,46

1.101.004

July 2019 has broken the record by increasing 16.7% compared to previous year of tourism and making a new record of 6.6 million in a single month.

According to the Hotel Association of Turkey (TUROB) hotel occupancy rate was 82.8% in Istanbul and 64.1% in Antalya within this period.

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